A Délı̨nę artist, photographer and former band councillor is recovering from emergency surgery after doctors in Yellowknife discovered a tumour the size of a soda can in his colon.
Morris Neyelle, 71, believes he nearly died because his local health centre failed to diagnose the problem. He wonders whether he was treated like a second-class citizen.
“Why have I been treated this way? Is it because I’m an Aboriginal person? That’s the question I ask myself,” he said.
Délı̨nę, a community of just over 500 people northwest of Yellowknife, is a 90-minute flight away from the N.W.T. capital.
Neyelle ended up arranging his own flight
